Tenants of a northeast Bend 4-plex arrived home early Friday evening after running an errand to find the cooking pot they had left unattended on their kitchen stove had caught fire, causing an estimated $15,500 in damage.
Upon their return, the occupants discovered the pot had caught fire igniting the stove, cabinets and sheetrock. They were able to extinguish the fire and left the premises.
When 14 Bend Fire personnel responded to the scene at ... [full story]

The motorcyclist who lost his life in an accident involving a deer on Cascade Lakes Highway August 9th has been identified as Friedhelm Andresen of Negernbotel, Germany. According to a news release from the Deschutes County Sheriff’s Office, Andresen’s family was notified with the assistance of the German Consulate.
Andresen struck a deer and was killed on Cascade Lakes Highway near Wickiup Reservoir, milepost 56, just before 10 a.m. August 9.
According to Lt. Erik ... [full story]

The Lake George Fire advanced approximately 50 acres yesterday and continues to burn approximately 13 miles west of Sisters in the Mt. Washington Wilderness on the Deschutes National Forest. The fire was estimated to be only 5 percent contained as of 8 a.m. Saturday August 12.
Authorities credit slightly moderate fire weather and aggressive use of aerial retardant and ground-based firefighting for the relatively small growth in size yesterday.
According to a news release from ... [full story]

The Lake George fire grew by about 350 acres to an estimated 1,000 acres Saturday, moving southwest in the Mt. Washington Wilderness. According to a news release from the Central Oregon Interagency Dispatch Center, the fire remains at 5 percent containment.
The lightning-caused fire started August 7 and continues to move southwest approximately 13 miles west of Sisters in the Mt. Washington Wilderness on the Deschutes National Forest.
The establishment of an anchor point in ... [full story]

A Prineville man is facing murder charges for the death of his four-year-old stepson.
Donnie Earl Asher, CCJ Photo Donnie Earl Asher, 26, pled not guilty during his arraignment on August 4. “He is charged with murder and manslaughter in the first degree,” said Andrejs Eglitis, the chief deputy district attorney in Crook County.
Asher was arrested after his wife brought her injured son, Nicholas Ray Jean Muldrow, to Pioneer Memorial Hospital in Prineville.
The child ... [full story]

A nice lady called to query one of the daughters about six potential baby-sitting dates. When I told her the daughter was not home, she asked if I would like to write the dates down. I probably seemed rude when I said no.
It’ s not that I wouldn’t take a message. It’s that I couldn’t take a message.
I have forgotten how.
I used to take phone messages all the time. Why I could ... [full story]

I had a combination "Ha, ha, serves you right/wow, that's too bad" moment a few years ago when I heard that Chris Hamill (aka 'Limahl'), former lead singer of '80s British band Kajagoogoo, was working at a London record store. This followed his failed solo singing career that he launched after Kajagoogoo's one big hit, "Too Shy," hit number one in the UK charts.It seems Limahl suffered from the same disease that most lead singers ... [full story]

From backyard barbecues and family reunions to graduations and weddings, summer is the season for making outdoor memories. But when autumn comes and the weather changes, those memories can start to fade. Instead of letting precious moments slip away, you can preserve them forever with a DVD camcorder, which combines the versatile capabilities of a camcorder with the unbeatable convenience of DVD media.
Because these dream machines record directly on mini DVD media instead of using ... [full story]

Since teenagers first picked up joysticks and batted small blips of light back and forth on TV screens, parents have been shaking their heads and saying "You'll never make a living playing video games!" The booming computer graphics industry has proven them wrong, and simulation, an outgrowth of that industry, is poised to become the next hot career inspired by those old video games.
"Simulation focuses on a student's ability to combine science, mathematics and programming ... [full story]

An elderly woman in my community learned not too long ago that she needed dentures. She had enough money to pay for the new teeth, but she discovered that her funds, while technically hers, couldn't be touched.
The bad guy in this pitiful case was an insurance company, which had capitalized on an ingenious way to make money off an easy mark.
What the woman with the bad molars had bought was an equity indexed annuity. Promoters ... [full story]